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I wish that was true. But the corporate world runs on MS Office. The alternatives to that just cannot keep up :(
by _ink_ 2y ago
I wish that was true. But the corporate world runs on MS Office. The alternatives to that just cannot keep up :(
- beanjuiceII 2y agowhat does this matter anymore with office 365?
- _mlbt 2y agoThe browser version is lacking several features compared to the Windows and Mac versions.
- ToniCipriani 2y agoThe web version of Office apps still is not the same as the full-featured fat desktop version, which only runs on Windows and Mac OS. You can't use the web version offline, they are not a PWA, for instance.
- fphhotchips 2y agoThe full featured version doesn't even run on Mac OS. Excel, PowerPoint and Word for Mac are all pale imitations of their Windows counterparts.
- chuckadams 2y agoThe irony is that Excel started out as a Mac app.
- robertlagrant 2y agoOffice 365's web version is pretty dreadful.
- kayodelycaon 2y agoThe web version of Word is a bad joke. I couldn’t even use it for editing a story the last time I tried it because it either didn’t have change tracking or it didn’t work correctly. At least the iOS app is useable. Don’t get me started on Excel.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoWeb apps in general are a bad joke. They never, ever work as well as a real desktop app. At best they are a port in a storm because you can't use the real version of the application for whatever reason, but they aren't viable as a replacement and likely never will be.
- okanat 2y agoNo COM integration, no VBA and no Active Directory support. Business and engineering software uses Windows APIs to integrate with MS Office and Active Directory. The APIs are not portable and hard to replicate on emulation layers. The software is old so expect a huge pile of examples of Hyrum's law. So you need bug-for-bug API layer implementation to run those software elsewhere. Migrating companies off from that software is actually harder than creating a clone of Windows.
- justahuman74 2y agoperhaps at some point Proton will fill that use-case
- downrightmike 2y agoOffice is a webapp at this point, businesses use msft for AD
- smackeyacky 2y agoNot for everything. Microsoft still don't have a working set of Rules for the web version of Outlook, so if you have anybody who uses rules to organise their inbox into different folders they are stuck with the desktop version of Outlook.
- jasomill 2y agoYou can create server-side rules via “Settings → Mail → Rules” in Outlook Web. While more limited than Outlook for Windows client-side rules, they're fine for simple "move emails from x to folder y"-type rules, and are particularly useful for people like me who rarely use Outlook at all. You can also create server-side rules in the Exchange admin center if you have access.
- nineteen999 2y agoI've never seen anybody using the Web version of Office 365, outside the Outlook web client. All the companies I've worked at in the last 10 years are still using the installable versions of Word/Excel/PowerPoint etc. The web versions are not even comparable.
- downrightmike 2y agoLucky you, I got forced upgraded last year
- whalesalad 2y agoI get by great in the corp world with Libreoffice. It even handles some really antique VBA-based spreadsheets.